Mastodawn

Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated

Kevin Boone: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.

Nestel34 Feb 5

My updated site retro-digital / old internet aesthetics.

🧠 אינטראקציות / interactive elements
🔌 אנימציות / animations
📡 הכל קורה בעמוד אחד / everything happens on one page
👉 http://nestechsoftware.neocities.org

#neocities #geocities #indieweb #אינטרנט_עצמאי #retroWeb #90sInternet #webArt #experimentalWeb #Fediverse #PersonalWeb #OldWeb
#RetroInternet
#CyberNostalgia #CreativeCoding #HTMLArt
#HandmadeWeb
#AltWeb #UndergroundWeb #InternetCulture
#PixelArt #RetroAesthetic #Y2K #90sAesthetic #oldternet #3Dart

HP van Braam Jan 12

MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!

#retrocomputing #retrointernet #internet

Yasutaka Wada Nov 9

Back to Usenet. Learn from them. Retrospective.

Plain text, threaded conversations.
Ideas shared freely, no flashy UI — just thoughtful messages.
Author references propagated over network.
Small, readable, decentralized — lessons in simplicity and clarity.
Echoes today in IndieWeb: own your content, control your identity.

#Usenet #TextCulture #RetroInternet #ASCII #Hackers #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #IndieWeb

Yasutaka Wada Nov 5

What’s Cool About Text Culture?

Low-cost, no permission needed.

Anonymous or pseudonymous — words > names.

Needs imagination — no flashy noise.

Free to copy, remix, and spread.

Quiet but hits deep — a time-delay bomb.

Reboot the spirit:
Write .txt / .md ZINEs, poetic README files, or manifesto code.
Text is your code, your weapon, your poem.

#TextCulture #ZINE #DigitalRebellion #HackTheWord #Gemini #Markdown #RetroInternet

Denial403 Oct 25

Vi manca l’epoca d’oro di IRC? Quando i nickname erano arte e i ping la nostra rovina Tornate indietro nel tempo con noi su FAILNET → irc.fail porta +6697 (SSL)
#IRC #RetroInternet #NerdVibes #ircfail #failors

@roughnecks @ndo

Matthew Smith Aug 14, 2025

Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.

Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!

Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.

Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!

#MUD #RetroInternet #TextGame #Talker

Gartenpoet Aug 12, 2025

Flashback - Ich hab den Sound noch im Ohr:
da di du du da diiii 🎶

Damals hieß „schnell“: 10–15 Sekunden für ein 100-KB-Foto – matschige Pixel inklusive. Ein 1-MB-Bild? Zweieinhalb Minuten warten… und hoffen, dass niemand das Telefon abhebt. 📞🛑

https://www.n-tv.de/technik/AOL-beendet-Internet-Einwahl-ueber-Modem-und-ISDN-article25957956.html

#RetroInternet #ModemSound #DigitalerAlltag #90erNostalgie #TechnikErinnerung

Was war das nochmal?: AOL beendet Internet-Einwahl über Modem und ISDN

Eigentlich ist es nur eine Randnotiz, dass AOL ab Ende September keine Internetverbindungen mehr über das analoge Telefonnetz per Modem und ISDN zur Verfügung stellt. Viele erinnern sich aber noch an die legendären Geräusche bei der Einwahl, andere möchten vielleicht wissen, was das überhaupt war.

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ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ Jul 24, 2025

@sarajw
I do actually check in occasionally and the only other one from the old gang I sometimes see there is Gabe ('the babe').
If it's of interest, I can recommend https://www.eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #ProperInternet #RetroInternet